Posted on 08/15/2020 5:05:47 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
“That’s just the beginning, I would imagine. This… what happened should never happen again,” President Trump said at a White House briefing Friday afternoon. “You’ll be hearing more.”
Durham’s “development” was a bigger deal than Barr indicated. – The guilty plea by ex-FBI/Mueller special counsel lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was not really surprising, but it is a big deal nonetheless, as it represents the first of what will likely become a series of ObamaGate dominoes to topple in the weeks to come.
In an interview with Captain Tick-Tock, Sean Hannity Thursday, Attorney General William Barr indicated that there would be a “development” in the John Durham investigation on Friday, but that it would not be “earth-shaking.” As is generally the case with Mr. Barr, that description turned out to be 100% accurate.
Advertisement: 0:08 VDO.AI Clinesmith plead guilty to “making a false statement” to DOJ investigators about having altered an email about Carter Page in a manner that changed its entire meaning. Page had told investigators was a source for the CIA, and Clinesmith altered the email to say he was “not” a CIA source in order to support an FBI application for the third FISA warrant to spy on Mr. Page, which was executed in July, 2017.
Disturbingly, Clinesmith was assigned to the FBI’s National Security Division during 2016. He is an obviously leftist radical who bragged to colleagues about having played a part in the FBI’s role in trying to tilt the election towards Hillary Clinton, and to be working to “destroy the Republic.” Following Trump’s victory in 2016, Clinesmith, identified as “Attorney 2” in the Horowitz report, had this exchange with that fellow FBI lawyer:
Attorney 2: “I am numb.”
Other employee not involved in midyear investigation: “I can’t stop crying.”
Attorney 2: “That makes me even more sad.”
Employee “Like, what happened? You promised me this wouldn’t happen. YOU PROMISED…”
Attorney 2: “I am so stressed about what I could have done differently.”
Employee: “Don’t stress. None of that mattered. The FBI’s influence.”
Attorney 2: “I don’t know. We broke the momentum.”
Employee: “That is not so….”
Attorney 2: “I’m just devastated. I can’t wait until I can leave today and just shut off the world for the next four days…I just can’t imagine the systematic disassembly of the progress we made over the last 8 years. ACA is gone. Who knows if the rhetoric about deporting people, walls and crap is true. I honestly feel like there is going to be a lot more gun issues too, the crazies won finally. This is the tea party on steroids. And the GOP is going to be lost, they have to deal with an incumbent in 4 years. We have to fight this again. Also Pence is stupid.”
Attorney 2: “And it’s just hard not to feel like the FBI caused some of this. It was razor thin in some states. Plus my god damned name is all over the legal documents investigating his staff. So who knows if that breaks to him, what he is going to do.”
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Clinesmith’s obvious hatred for President Trump and the American republic obviously made him the perfect FBI lawyer to be detailed over the Mueller Special Counsel probe when it got started in May 2017, and he was in that role, working directly with lead Mueller henchman Andrew Weissman, when he altered the email in question.
It’s important to remember that Clinesmith’s wrongdoing took place on the watch of Christopher Wray, not James Comey. It also took place under the watch of Rod Rosenstein after AG Jeff Sessions had recused himself. Rosenstein and Weissman were basically running the entire Department of Justice from May, 2017 through January, 2019, when William Barr came into the AG’s job.
Clinesmith was far from the only FBI employee who was involved in the attempted coup d’etat targeting President Trump. The Horowitz report named no fewer than five such skunks who brought disgrace on themselves during this sorry episode in U.S. history.
Thus, Clinesmith’s guilty plea in and of itself was not especially earth-shaking. But the way in which its thread is likely to reverberate throughout the entire apparatus of the FBI/DOJ coup cabal that existed during 2016 and 2017 is likely to be.
It’s key to note that, in his interview with Hannity, Barr also said that Durham’s efforts would not be delayed by political considerations over the upcoming election, and that there would be more to come from him soon. As I noted above, Barr’s public statements have a way of being proven true.
Stay tuned. The fun is just beginning, and payback is going to be hell.
That is all.
A lawyer is an officer of the Court.
Can a lawyer receive an official declaration, change the meaning 100%, then forward the response to law enforcement, and not commit any crimes????
Remarkable
Attorney 2: “And it’s just hard not to feel like the FBI caused some of this. It was razor thin in some states. Plus my god damned name is all over the legal documents investigating his staff. So who knows if that breaks to him, what he is going to do.”....
1) The FBI employees were/are working for the dims.
2) The grieving FBI employees blame themselves for raising the Clinton email issue, which in their minds (???) broke the momentum
3) Corrupt FBI employees worked three times as hard to fix their “mistakes”
4) The ends justify the means
Clinesmith did not like the President Trump policy platform.
Clinesmith wanted free health care for himself and every illegal, and he wanted patriots to pay the expense.
Clinesmith does not respect the vote of the Citizens
Treason!
That can be said for nearly the entire democrat party and half the republican party. The swamp is as big as the Pacific ocean and it needs a good draining. People with that ideology should be driven from any seat of power.
To show what a small fish he was, in three years of discussing the Koup on Twitter, I assigned nicknames to all the Koupsters, including McCabre, Deep Stroke, Pageboy, High Priest (Priestap), and Scrotumtoter (Comey).
I never heard this guy’s name, or if I did, it was so minimal he never got a nickname.
Ever since the Adm Rogers visit, we’ve known the FISA had been criminally falsified. The question was a legal one: who’s criminally liable? Some legal people have said it was only a mid-level person liable.
The question: is there no paper trail of an order from Obama, or even Comey or Brennan? (Similarly, without ever issuing a direct order, these days would Hitler have been indictable for the Holocaust?; sorry for the argument ad hitlerum)
Agreed 100%. I said the same thing in another thread. The Deep State has found its sacrificial lamb, and he will be pilloried loud and long in the media. And then quietly “kill himself” in his cell after the hubbub has died down.
I think SEDITION is the legal term:
“Incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority”.
THAT truly defines OBAMAGATE.
Top cop nabs a jay walker as the bank gets robbed and all tellers murdered.
Big fish write books little fish get hooked.,
You are right.
Even the employee in this exchange should be fired. They had to be suspicious that Clinesmith was committing a felony and didn’t do anything about it.
Graham won’t even ask Weissman to testify. It’s all campaign season theater at this point.
Can we have an agreement? All you Freepers kid your friends and I will kid mine, but we don’t kid each other. Clinesmith is no fool. He knows when he has been had big time. He is pleading guilty in order to avoid major legal fees and bankruptcy. He loves his house. He will now do whatever he can to assist Durham and Barr in their quest for justice for the American people and President Trump. We ain’t seen nothin yet! Stock up on popcorn, the previews have begun and the matinee is soon to follow.
Needs to be locked up in protective custody at either Gitmo or in the bowels of the Supermax before he gets introduced to Seth Rich.
“I want a bunch of coup plotters in prison but if I had to pick just one villain I would pick Weissmann. He is total complete scum.”
I’m with you. How is it possible that someone from Arthur Anderson, Enron, etc.(who had their lives ruined by him) has not, at the least, beaten the crap out of that arrogant ass-clown?
The dirty DemonRAT might well do that, but he’s probably named names and supplied evidence that is making a WHOLE lot of his fellow RATS very nervous.
Durham is a seasoned prosecutor; he’s taken down big fish, i.e., sharks, before. So just because Clinesmith is a little fish, don’t think that the true sharks aren’t worried about him having helped Durham catch them up in a large and legally strong net!
We really don’t have any idea of the timeline on what Durham is doing, but what Clinesmith actually did was publicly reported quite a while ago. It would seem that the delay in announcing this plea deal means that Clinesmith has already said everything he’s going to say, and Durham has investigated it.
Durham probably doesn’t need him, since he already has his testimony, and with it the crumbs of evidence that lead straight to the nest of some very BIG and crooked DemonRATS!
Durham and Barr, “Here’s a bone now shut the hell up“! Me thinks! All others will skate to freedom while Flynn is being castrated slowly And painfully!
Hopefully the juice will dry up as people learn about the perfidy in their deepstate and Hillary grifters.
I would settle for sentences up to age 65 for all of them.
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